Paraphrase

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Literary Devices

• Paraphrase
• Figure of Speech
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification

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Paraphrase a restatement of a text in your own
words

• Paraphrasing a test can help you clarify and
  interpret difficult or ambiguous passages

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Figure of Speech an expression or word used
imaginatively rather than literally

• Used in poetry and prose to make
• ideas more memorable and forceful

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Simile makes a direct comparison between two
subjects using either like or as

• My love is like a red, red rose.
• The kittens purr was like an engine running wide
  open.

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Metaphorimplies a comparison between things
which are commonly thought to be dissimilar

• The kittens motor purred loudly as
• it left skid marks across the floor.

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Some famous metaphors

• No man is an island
• -John Donne

All the world is a stage and all the men and
women in it merely players -William Shakespeare
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• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the
  lighting of a fire.
• -William Butler Yeats

O Captain my Captain! Our fearful trip is
done The ship has weathered every track, the
prize we sought was won -Walt Whitman
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Personificationfigure of speech in which a
nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

• Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
• The alarm clock screamed out its
• early morning greeting.

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